Florida Heroes, Phones to Avoid & Chinese New Year - Friday, February 16th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
All the news you need to know for Friday, February 16th, 2018!
Today: students thank the hero teachers from Florida's school shooting and lawmakers still can't get along when it comes to immigration.
Plus: which type of cell phone the FBI says to avoid, a promising Alzheimer's study and the Chinese New year...
All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome welcome to the newsworthy all the day's news in less than 10 minutes |
| 0:07.8 | fast fair fun and on the go thanks so much for tuning in today the heroes in Florida and the immigration policies in limbo |
| 0:16.3 | plus a cell phone warning and Alzheimer's breakthrough and the Chinese New |
| 0:20.5 | year all that and much more in less than 10 minutes. I'm America |
| 0:24.2 | Mandy. Today is Friday, February 16th. You ready. Let's do this. |
| 0:28.8 | There are several updates to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida this week. |
| 0:36.2 | For one, the names of the 17 students and staff killed are slowly being revealed. |
| 0:41.2 | They range in age from 14 to 49 and include teachers that some students are now calling heroes saying |
| 0:47.8 | they shielded them and protected them, like the assistant football coach Aaron Fice. Another teacher, Scott Beagle, is credited with getting students into a classroom |
| 0:56.4 | last minute before he was killed. |
| 0:58.7 | The LA Times reports someone with the same name as the shooter did once comment on a YouTube video that he would be a |
| 1:04.5 | school shooter and it was apparently reported to the FBI but the case closed |
| 1:09.0 | because they couldn't identify who it really was. The New York Times reports the alleged |
| 1:13.3 | gunman did confess to police. President Trump spoke about this tragedy |
| 1:17.5 | yesterday. He said leaders need to tackle the issue of mental health and he |
| 1:21.3 | offered words of comfort to those affected. |
| 1:24.2 | He said he's planning a trip to Parkland. |
| 1:26.4 | He didn't really talk about gun control. |
| 1:29.4 | Some Democrats and even grieving students and parents, they did talk about it. |
| 1:33.0 | One grieving mom went on CNN |
| 1:34.5 | and had a strong message for the president |
| 1:36.6 | about gun control and metal detectors at schools. |
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